Persons entitled for registration under this Act

1) Nurses, Lady Health Visitors and Auxiliary Nurse Midwives/ Female Health Workers who have undergone the course of training as prescribed by the Indian Nursing Council from a recognized training Institution, and passed the examination and fulfilled such further conditions as may be prescribed. 2) A person already registered under the Assam Nurses' Midwives' & Health Visitors' Council Registration Act, 1944 and which person are residing and practicing as a nurse in the state of Nagaland immediately before the commencement of this Act.